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WEATHER STRIP. No. 371,421. Patente Ont. 11,1887.

Unites STATE ATENT FICE" W'ALTER SCOTT CARNOVSKY, OF KINGSTON, ONTARIO, CANADA.

WEATHER-STRIP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 371,421, dated October 11, 1887.

Application filed January 31, 1887. Serial No. 226,006.

To all 107L012 it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WALTER Soorr CAR- NOVSKY, a citizen of Canada, residing at Kingston, in the county of Frontenac and Province of Ontario, Canada, have invented a new and useful Improvement in \Veather Strips for Attaching to the Bottom Rail of Doors, in which the strip is automatically raised and lowered by the opening and closing of the door; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention consists, essentially, in a strip pivoted to the lower part of the door near its hinged side, its outer end arranged to work vertically and in such a manner that when the door is shut the strip will be held close down against the floor or doorsaddle, and raised to a suitable height when the door is opened.

In the accompanying drawingswhich illustrate my invention, Figure 1 shows a door provided with my improved weather-strip, the door being open. Fig. 2 is an inside view of the weather-strip detached from the door. Figs. 8 and 4 are vertical crosssections through the two ends of the strip on the lines thereon indicated, showing the manner in which it is attached to the door.

The strip A is pivoted to the door B by a screw or bolt, a, which projects from the door through the slot c in the metallic plate I), which is sunk flush in the wooden strip A. The edges of the slot slide under the head of the screw, and the strip is thereby held close to the door. The Swinging end of the strip is held to the door in the same manner by a screw, 0*, except that in it the slot 0 is vertical, whereas in the first-mentioned plate the slot is horizontal.

A chamber, (2. is formed in the wooden strip A for the reception of the spring 0, which is secured to the bottom rail of the door and presses against the top side of the chamber, so as to hold the wooden strip A in an ele vated position when the door is opened.

' The bottom edge of the wooden strip A is provided with a soft cushion, D, of rubber or other suitable material, sunk flush in the lower edge of the wooden strip A, and placed so as to press against the floor when the door is shut.

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The means by which the strip is depressed when the door is shut consists in the arm E, which is fixed rigidly to the swinging end of the wooden strip and terminates in the finger c, which projects at a right angle from it. The top side of this finger impinges on the under and sloping side, j", of the plate F, which is sunk flush with the rabbet of the door, and in which a groove, g, is cut to allow ot' the passage of the finger e. \Vhen the door is closed, the finger 0' slides under the plate F and presses the cushion D against the door.

By the use of the horizontal and vertical slots the accidental disconnection of the strip is prevented, in a manner which will be apparent to any mechanic.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is l. The door provided with the pivot and the guide screw, in combination with the weatherstrip slotted horizontallyand vertically to engage said pivot and guide, a projecting finger on the strip, the inclined plate on the dooreasing to engage said finger and depress the free end of the strip, as described, and means for keeping the strip normally elevated.

2. The combination, with the door casing provided with the inclined plate F and the swinging door, of a weather strip pivoted at one end to one side of the door and provided with a guide at the other end, a projecting finger on the strip to engage said plate F, and a lifting-spring contained within a recess in the strip.

8. The eombinatiomwith the door provided with the pivot and guide screw and the casing provided with the inclined plate F, of the weather strip slotted horizontally and vertically to engage said pivot and guide, the projecting finger on the strip to engage the plate F, and the lifting-spring contained in a recess in the strip.

Signed at Kingston this 17th day of Jan nary, 1887.

\VALTER SCOTT GARNOVSKY.

In the presence oi 0. V. PRIoE, J. A. GARDINER. 

